Society but i was also a believer in a tough approach to the soviet union which means i had ready 30 much at home in the Democratic Party at the time. You had pat point hand. You had Henry Jackson a great senator from Washington State and later on that element of the Democratic Party shrunk to nothingness. And as it did i was without a home. I remained generally without a political home. You could obviously fairly call me a neoconservative then. Host s been 18 years since the 1996 telecommute nations act was enacted by congress and signed by president clinton. Today on the communicators we are going to discuss that its goals and whether or not it should be rewritten rewritten. Joining us are two of the authors of the 1996 Telecommunications Act rick boucher who is a democrat from virginia served in congress from 1983 to 2011 and jack sub 3a republican in texas from 1981 to 97. Congressman feels what was your role in the development of the 96 pelka medications act . Guest it was actuall
Was we had to come in and try to eliminate the lines of demarcation and from mote competition and promote competition, believing thered be innovation, more investment, more consumer choice, more innovation and, you know, fortunately, i think the result has proven us correct, that thats exactly whats happened. But now were in a situation, you know, not that many years later that there needs to be, again, i think, a massive overhaul. And out of all the new technology, all the new applications, all the new modes of service. Host rick boucher, youve covered, worked on telecommunications for a long time especially as a member of congress. Did congress understand what was going on with the 96 Telecommunications Act, or was it just limit today a few members with expertise . Guest well, as is often the case in the committees that focus on particular subject matters took the lead in this reform. Jack was chairman of our subcommittee. Other members of our subcommittee had been focused on telecom
Had been 17 years at that point. I got out and i went into the private sector. I actually had three jobs in the private sector. Started out with United Technologies corporation, did a couple years there. I went on to Business Executives for National Security which is a nonprofit organization. And then i went to saic wishes science applications international. At a variety of jobs there, in the as being the president of the technical and engineering sector. So i was actually running a segment of our business and saic. Saic does it solutions and Technology Services and solutions for the government. Mostly the military. So you see the thread thread tht always links my career together has always been military issues. Its our national the fans. I have always been a civilian, never served in uniform, always been a civilian in support of defense, but i served as well is the way i look at it, including my time industry because we cant get our work done in government without our industry partner
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